Wadala crash: tempo driver on ventilator, four other injured stable

The tempo driver injured in Monday's multi-vehicle collision at Lodha Junction in Wadala, Mumbai, is still unconscious and on a ventilator. According to the latest medical information from the Traffic Command and Control Centre, the condition of the other four injured is stable. The crash involved a BEST bus, a Chalo Premium bus and two cars.

The tempo driver has a head injury and is being treated in the trauma ICU at Sion Hospital. The doctor on duty said he is unconscious and is not responding to treatment.

Among the others injured, a 63-year-old woman has injuries to her head, left arm and left ear. Her left arm is broken and has been put in a cast. The injury to her left ear needed 11 stitches. Her condition is described as stable and she is admitted to emergency ward 41 at Sion Hospital.

The woman's 75-year-old husband has injuries to his head and chest. His condition is also stable and he is admitted to the same ward. The couple's 28-year-old daughter has injuries to her head, left arm and leg. She has been stitched above the forehead and on the left leg below the knee. Her condition is also described as stable.

The 37-year-old driver of a hired Ertiga car has an internal injury to his left hand. Two toes on his left foot, next to the little toe, are also injured. No fracture has been found and his condition is described as normal.

The latest medical information emerged when Traffic Accident Inspector Masurkar visited the injured at Sion Hospital at about 9.50 am.

The collision took place at about 8.30 pm on Monday at Lodha Junction in Wadala. According to BEST's command and control centre, a Chalo Premium bus coming from behind allegedly hit the rearmost of two cars that were stopped behind a BEST bus waiting at the signal. The impact was so severe that the front car went under the rear of the BEST bus. People travelling in the damaged vehicles were trapped inside.

Police reached the spot and cleared the road by removing the damaged vehicles with a crane. The injured were taken to Sion Hospital for treatment. Full details of the circumstances in which the collision occurred are still awaited.